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Published in final edited form as: Am Heart J. 2008 Oct 21;157(1):77–83. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2008.08.013

Table 2.

Rate of antidepressant use by BDI Seventy and Ethnicity

BDI Category	Ethnicity	No Antidepressant n = 695	Antidepressant n= 169	Total n = 864
		% of row (n)	% of row (n)	% of entire sample (n)
None BDI < 10	Caucasian	84.2 (449)	15.8 (84)	61.7(533)
	African American	91.1 (82)	8.9 (8)	10.4 (90)

Mild-Mod. BDI = 10–18	Caucasian	68.7 (103)	31.3 (47)	17.4(150)
	African American	88.6 (31)	11.4 (4)	4.1 (35)

Mod.-Sev. BDI > 18	Caucasian	50.0 (22)	50.0(22)	5.1 (44)
	African American	66.7 (8)	33.3 (4)	1.4 (12)

None = No significant depressive symptoms

Mild-Mod. = Mild to moderate depressive symptoms

Mod.-Sev. = Moderate to severe depressive symptoms